ICALEPCS2013 - List of Authors (Cleva, S.)

Paper

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BeagleBone for Embedded Control System Applications

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S. Cleva, L. Pivetta, P. Sigalotti
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy

Funding: Work supported in part by the Italian Ministry of University and Research under grants FIRB-RBAP045JF2 and FIRB-RBAP06AWK3
The control system architecture of modern experimental physics facilities needs to meet the requirements of the ever increasing complexity of the controlled devices. Whenever feasible, moving from a distributed architecture based on powerful but complex and expensive computers to an even more pervasive approach based on simple and cheap embedded systems, allows shifting the knowledge close to the devices. The BeagleBone computer, being capable of running a full featured operating system such as GNU/Linux, integrates effectively into the existing control systems and allows executing complex control functions with the required flexibility. The paper discusses the choice of the BeagleBone as embedded platform and reports some examples of control applications recently developed for the ELETTRA and FERMI@Elettra light sources.

Slides MOMIB05 [0.436 MB]

Poster MOMIB05 [1.259 MB]

TUCOCB10

TANGO V8 - Another Turbo Charged Major Release

978

A. Götz, J.M. Chaize, T.M. Coutinho, J.M. Meyer, F. Poncet, E.T. Taurel, P.V. Verdier
ESRF, Grenoble, France
G. Abeillé, A. Buteau, N. Leclercq, F.E. Picca
SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
S. Cleva, M. Lonza, L. Pivetta, C. Scafuri
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
D.F.C. Fernández-Carreiras, S. Rubio-Manrique
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
I.A. Khokhriakov
HZG, Geesthacht, Germany
S. Perez
CEA, Arpajon, France
D.P. Spruce
MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden

The TANGO (http://tango-controls/org) collaboration continues to evolve and improve the TANGO kernel. A latest release has made major improvements to the protocol and, the language support in Java. The replacement of the CORBA Notificaton service with ZMQ for sending events has allowed a much higher performance, a simplification of the architecture and support for multicasting to be achieved. A rewrite of the Java device server binding using the latest features of the Java language has made the code much more compact and modern. Guidelines for writing device servers have been produced so they can be more easily shared. The test suite for testing the TANGO kernel has been re-written and the code coverage drastically improved. TANGO has been ported to new embedded platforms running Linux and mobile platforms running Android and iOS. Packaging for Debian and bindings to commercial tools have been updated and a new one (Panorama) added. The graphical layers have been extended. The latest figures on TANGO performance will be presented. Finally the paper will present the roadmap for the next major release.

Slides TUCOCB10 [1.469 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
MOMIB05	BeagleBone for Embedded Control System Applications	62
	S. Cleva, L. Pivetta, P. Sigalotti Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
	Funding: Work supported in part by the Italian Ministry of University and Research under grants FIRB-RBAP045JF2 and FIRB-RBAP06AWK3 The control system architecture of modern experimental physics facilities needs to meet the requirements of the ever increasing complexity of the controlled devices. Whenever feasible, moving from a distributed architecture based on powerful but complex and expensive computers to an even more pervasive approach based on simple and cheap embedded systems, allows shifting the knowledge close to the devices. The BeagleBone computer, being capable of running a full featured operating system such as GNU/Linux, integrates effectively into the existing control systems and allows executing complex control functions with the required flexibility. The paper discusses the choice of the BeagleBone as embedded platform and reports some examples of control applications recently developed for the ELETTRA and FERMI@Elettra light sources.
	Slides MOMIB05 [0.436 MB]
	Poster MOMIB05 [1.259 MB]

TUCOCB10	TANGO V8 - Another Turbo Charged Major Release	978
	A. Götz, J.M. Chaize, T.M. Coutinho, J.M. Meyer, F. Poncet, E.T. Taurel, P.V. Verdier ESRF, Grenoble, France G. Abeillé, A. Buteau, N. Leclercq, F.E. Picca SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France S. Cleva, M. Lonza, L. Pivetta, C. Scafuri Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy D.F.C. Fernández-Carreiras, S. Rubio-Manrique CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain I.A. Khokhriakov HZG, Geesthacht, Germany S. Perez CEA, Arpajon, France D.P. Spruce MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden
	The TANGO (http://tango-controls/org) collaboration continues to evolve and improve the TANGO kernel. A latest release has made major improvements to the protocol and, the language support in Java. The replacement of the CORBA Notificaton service with ZMQ for sending events has allowed a much higher performance, a simplification of the architecture and support for multicasting to be achieved. A rewrite of the Java device server binding using the latest features of the Java language has made the code much more compact and modern. Guidelines for writing device servers have been produced so they can be more easily shared. The test suite for testing the TANGO kernel has been re-written and the code coverage drastically improved. TANGO has been ported to new embedded platforms running Linux and mobile platforms running Android and iOS. Packaging for Debian and bindings to commercial tools have been updated and a new one (Panorama) added. The graphical layers have been extended. The latest figures on TANGO performance will be presented. Finally the paper will present the roadmap for the next major release.
	Slides TUCOCB10 [1.469 MB]